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blightoath · 11 days ago

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when i was replaying some of the beginning of veilguard the other day, i realized something in that first conversation between rook and solas. rook's monologuing and talking about how solas' big ritual is what tore down the veil and how he's the one who let the evanuris free, all he and varric were trying to do was stop him. varric just wanted to talk, and now varric is hurt.

and solas is about to blurt out varric is dead.

but solas can tell, in that moment, that rook fully believes that varric is just hurt. that something in the fade or in rook's own psyche has made them believe it. maybe he can even feel that rook feels it's true through the fade or their blood magic connection. and you can literally see him pivot in real time to take this as an advantage. he goes from wanting to say varric is dead to varric is... quite practiced at shading the truth himself.

he was being fully honest previously when he said he hated blood magic. doesn't mean he won't use it if it's already done to get himself out of prison.

#[ general ] ooc.#[ i don't think solas is fully the one who recreates varric right off the bat ]#[ i think the fade does it. as a reflection of rook ]#[ of their inability to deal with the grief of losing a close friend ]#[ i think rook's anguish so close to the ritual site combined with varric's death caused the spirits there to take on varric's likeness ]#[ after that i think solas might try to pull strings idk ]#[ but i think the lighthouse is more loyal to solas than it's first let on to be ]#[ like the wisps. like the caretaker. i think there's something else there that is either ]#[ trying to help rook ]#[ or trying to help solas ]

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